The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
HONORE DE BALZACLove is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man’s appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.
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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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